Siuan Sanche
(15 October 1991)
“It was beautiful in a harsh I'm-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way.”
“You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy
But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!”
Macheath in "Second Threepenny-Finale"; Act 2, scene 3, p. 67
Variant translations:
However much you twist, whatever lies you tell
Food is the first thing, morals follow on.
Used by the Pet Shop Boys, in "What Keeps Mankind Alive?", Can You Forgive Her (1993 EP)
Food first, then morality.
The Threepenny Opera (1928)
(full quote in context) Asked why he had not done more debates, Thompson replied "Standing up here 10 in a row, you know, like a bunch of seals waiting for somebody to throw you the next fish, is not necessarily the best way to impart your information to the American people. I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time."
[Ryan Sager, The New York Sun, http://www.nysun.com/article/62678?page_no=3, Mr. Sunshine State, September 14, 2007, 2007-09-21]
“If you think this is funny, wait 'till you get into combat. You'll think that's hysterical!”
Polynikes p. 80
Gates of Fire (1998)
“We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.”
Radio broadcast, London, Dieu Protège La France [God protect France], October 21, 1940 ( partial text http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/LaFrance.html).
The Second World War (1939–1945)
“Do you want me to strangle him now, or wait till he’s finished annoying you?”
Source: The Laundry Files, The Atrocity Archives (2004), Chapter 7, “Bad Moon Rising” (p. 163)
“You don't get everything all at once. You wait.”
Source: Until The Real Thing Comes Along
